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A Star Called Henry choose

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[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 173: Hey there, Bollicky!
at ballock, n.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 106: Did you pay your fare? I asked him. – We did in our arses, he said.
at in one’s ballocks under ballocks, n.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 146: Here’s all your butties now, she said.
at butty, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1921) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 312: You’re a fine man, Captain [...] No doxie could ever take the starch out of your trousers.
at doxy, n.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 98: Someone had fecked them from the Waxworks.
at feck, v.1
[Ire] (con. 1919) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 222: There’s a fecker in there I don’t know. – It’s a storm-cock; there he goes.
at fucker, n.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 153: Too much of the gee, he said.
at gee, n.4
[Ire] (con. 1900s) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 9: There were kids outside, a scabby-headed mob, waiting for the grushie.
at grush, v.
[Ire] (con. 1900s) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 67: They thought we were great, the gutties from Dublin.
at guttie, n.
[Ire] (con. 1917) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 192: You’ll soon catch the bastard. And you can give him a root in the hole from me.
at hole, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1920) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 252: It’ll soon be over, I said. – It will in its hole, said Jack.
at in one’s hole under hole, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 93: Watch it, lads. Jimmy’s hopping.
at hopping, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1917) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 188: The hoppy fella did the killing for Gandon.
at hoppy, adj.1
[Ire] (con. 1900s) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 36: He stood outside Dolly Oblong’s kip house.
at kiphouse (n.) under kip, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 102: Call yourselves men? You’re only molly men.
at molly man (n.) under molly, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1900s) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 10: A couple of mochers that nobody knew were caught helping themselves to the bottles of stout.
at moocher, n.
[Ire] (con. 1917) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 198: You didn’t think I could let these bucks have a meeting all on their ownio, did you?
at on one’s ownio under ownio, n.
[Ire] (con. 1900s) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 24: Aren’t they the picture?
at picture, n.
[Ire] (con. 1919) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 279: And the best of Ireland’s freaks [...] pinheads, hunchbacks, dwarfs.
at pinhead, n.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle Star Called Henry (2000) 131: While the Provisional Government pow-wowed around Connolly’s bed.
at pow-wow, v.
[Ire] (con. 1921) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 313: She’s queering things for the rest of us.
at queer, v.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 101: A bunch of shawlies they were, all shapes and ages under their black hoods.
at shawlie, n.
[Ire] (con. 1919) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 217: Stirabout and slidderjacks and cakes of rough bread.
at stir-about (n.) under stir, v.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 102: The Tommies’ll tan your arses for yis!
at tan, v.1
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 100: You thicks! You bloody eejits!
at thick, n.
[Ire] (con. 1916) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 113: Another kid, dressed in the threads of a golfer five times his size.
at threads, n.
[Ire] (con. 1910s) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 63: We helped the tuggers. We pushed their basket cars for them when they were tired.
at tugger, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1900s) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 34: I flooded the room with my stinks and waxes. I roared and screamed my right to be named.
at wax, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1919) R. Doyle A Star Called Henry (2000) 272: There’s a yoke up the stairs dying to rape me.
at yoke, n.1
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